A cult classic in France, the first translation of a novel that
captures a subjective stroll through an underground, glamorous Paris
finally there are the rolling stones who call for all these at the same
time among them and around them: the policeman, the cross-dresser, the
dancer, Frankenstein, the dandy, the robot
--from Dusty Pink
Written with the hope of achieving a "dreary distant banality,"
Jean-Jacques Schuhl's first novel is a subjective stroll through an
underground, glamorous Paris, a city that slips into the background but
never disappears, hovering on the verge of its own suppression. An
elegiac and luminous cut-up, Dusty Pink brings together race wire
results, editions of France-Soir, the lyrics to well-known British
songs, scripts from famous old films, pharmaceutical leaflets, fashion
ads, and strips and scraps of culture in which the avant-garde and
academicism blur in an overview of the cultural scene. This world of
atmospheres, portraits, and dazzling associations of ideas creates a
plane of shimmering surfaces.
Published in French in 1972, Jean-Jacques Schuhl's Dusty Pink became a
cult classic. This is its first translation.